The word was from an excerpt the paper published of its Far East correspondent Vasily Avchenko's book Crystal In A Transparent Frame, which is shortlisted for a book award.

The word, which appeared on page 20 of the newspaper, is synonymous with "carelessness" and was not printed in full, but rather represented by dots replacing most of the letters. Nevertheless, Vadim Ampelonsky, a spokesman for the authority points out to Russian website Lenizdat.Ru "it clearly was read".

The first warning was issued over a 10 October 2014 article that was found to be "extremist". The piece titled "If we are not the West, who are we?" by Yulya Latynina later had sections removed from it at the request of Roskomnadzor.

The paper tried to challenge the decision in court, but Moscow's Tagansky Court upheld it.

Russian politics and society are often dissected in the pages of Novaya Gazeta in incisive investigative pieces. On 7 October 2006 the assassination of Novaya Gazeta journalist and Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya drew international attention. She was extremely critical of Putin's war in Chechnya, and warned he was establishing a dictatorship.

Recently the paper has cast Russia's involvement in Ukraine in an unfavourable light, interviewing an injured 20-year-old Russian soldier who was fighting on the front lines in the country and other soldiers who said they were abandoned there.

"This latest supposed transgression seems totally arbitrary and unpredictable," said Halya Coynash from the anti-propaganda NGO StopFake.org, it's "a warning in itself that the publication should watch its step".